When an Archive Series - Live Download show is released, there is often a discussion amongst fans about the quality of artwork that accompanies it and how it befits the release. Now, I have my favourites and my Stockholm 2005s, but usually I’m of the impression that artwork has no relevance to the quality of … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 28th, 2023 – Gothenburg, SE – Ullevi
Forty-eight hours after they reacquainted themselves with one of their most adoring audiences, Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Ullevi hoping to deliver the ‘spectacular’ that Bruce teased as he closed the night out. June 24th saw them raise a high, albeit reachable bar, one that they were definitely going to try and … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 26th, 2023 – Gothenburg, SE – Ullevi
After seven long years, the moment was finally here: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were back in Gothenburg. The adopted home of Clarence Clemons, a city of special moments and performances, and the site of a stadium that has broken at least once in the past because of “Twist and Shout,” it was … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 24th, 2023 – Gothenburg, SE – Ullevi
The first stop in Germany on the 2023 International Tour brought Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band into Düsseldorf and its Merkur Spiel-Arena, and on the longest day of the year, with the men and women onstage not set to return to Germany until mid-July, this was surely one to savour. On a tour … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 21st, 2023 – Düsseldorf, DE – Merkur Spiel-Arena
Six years later, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Belgium and its TW Classic festival in Werchter’s appropriately named Festivalpark. Following acts that included the likes of Jack Johnson and Simply Red, the goal of Bruce and the Band here was to simply stun those who’d been waiting all day to see … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 18th, 2023 – Werchter, BE – Festivalpark – TW Classic
In June 1988, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band arrived in Birmingham to play Villa Park as perhaps the most well-oiled unit they’d ever been. Months of playing a largely fixed setlist on the Tunnel of Love Express Tour had seen them playing equal parts perfectly and sensationally, and while Bruce had started to … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 16th, 2023 – Birmingham, UK – Villa Park
The second show of June on the European leg of their 2023 International Tour saw Springsteen and the E Street Band march into Switzerland for a stop in Zurich that was certainly a contrast to the month’s first in Landgraaf. Don’t be fooled, it wasn’t a complete revamp of the setlist that has been played since … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 13th, 2023 – Zurich, CH – Letzigrund
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